Politics

ATHENS – In a scenario that shows just how divided Greece is, political leaders who tried to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections were at each other’s throats in diatribe so vicious...

ATHENS – Accused of being the man who could push Greece out of the Eurozone and into chaos and collapse, Coalition of the Radical Left leader Alexis Tsipras, a front-runner in the June 17 elections, is trying to persuade...

Dora Bakoyannis and her party Democratic Alliance accepted Antonis Samara's invitation to join New Democracy for the electoral battle in June. The return of Dora Bakoyannis and her party was officially announced today, after many days of negotiations on the terms of the agreement. “The time has come to set aside our differences,” said Democratic Alliance party leader...

David Cameron told Greece to accept austerity measures or quit the euro last night, urging the euro zone to put in place strong contingency plans for either eventuality. Cameron, speaking in Chicago before the start of a NATO summit, dismissed...

ATHENS – With their parties in a virtual deadlock for first place in the June 17 elections that could decide Greece’s fate, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has challenged Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) head Alexis Tsipras to...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said cash-strapped Greece needed to implement EU and IMF-imposed austerity measures as European solidarity was "not a one-way street." "To tell the Greeks that they need not apply austerity deals to which they have agreed...

Even as Greeks found themselves caught in the twin nightmares of accepting more pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and mass firings, or the doomsday scenarios of returning to the drachma, 70 percent devaluation, lack of food, fuel, tanks...

Greece's conservative New Democracy party and the radical leftist Syriza party are even in polls published in Sunday newspapers, with two polls showing New Democracy would garner the most support in a fresh vote mid-June and Syriza taking the...

The former Parliamentary group of right-wing LAOS (Popular Orthodox Rally) unanimously has decided to run independently in the next elections planned for June 17. Today, the party members met under their President Giorgos Karatzaferis and decided not to run with...

Greek poll front-runner Alexis Tsipras, buoyed by a groundswell of opposition to EU-IMF imposed austerity measures, says forcing his country out of the eurozone would sink the region as a whole. The problems in Greece were those of Europe, Tsipras...

ATHENS – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office is denying a report that she recommended to Greek President Karolos Papoulias that Greece should hold a referendum on whether to stay in the Eurozone. Late last year, she blasted then Prime...

An extensive report by the New York Times compares SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras to the new “pied piper” coming to the rescue of Greece after the May 6 election outcome that ranked his party the second major political power...

European Parliament President Martin Schulz visited Athens to meet with political figures of the country. Schulz planned to visit the Greek capital May 13-14 but cancelled it. Later, he stated he just postponed the visit but did not make clear...

ATHENS – Even as a new Parliament briefly met and dissolved, Greece’s political parties were taking shots at each other ahead of a second round of elections on June 17 that could decide whether the country stays in the...

Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a stable Greek government to be formed quickly after new elections in a telephone call with President Carolos Papoulias on Friday, a German government spokesman said. "The chancellor had a telephone conversation on Friday morning...